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Red Onion Jazz Babies sessions were organized by Clarence Williams and featured Lil Hardin-Armstrong who had come east to be near her husband Louis who had just joined the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra the month before. The sessions are also famous for bringing Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong together for the first time on record.

discography

TitleRecording DateRecording LocationCompany
Cake Walking Babies From Home
(Clarence Williams / Chris Smith / Henry Troy)
1-7-1925New York, New YorkGennett
5627-A
Silvertone
4029-A
Early Every Morn
(Billy Higgins / W. Benton Overstreet)
12-24-1924New York, New YorkGennett
5626
Everybody Loves My Baby
(Jack Palmer / Spencer Williams)
11-6-1924New York, New YorkGennett
5594
Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning
(Tom Delany)
12-24-1924New York, New YorkGennett
8162-A
Of All The Wrongs You’ve Done To Me
(Payton / Smith)
11-8-1924New York, New YorkGennett
5627-B
Silvertone
4029-B
Santa Claus Blues
(Charley Straight / Gus Kahn)
11-26-1924New York, New YorkGennett
5607-B
Terrible Blues
(Clarence Williams)
11-26-1924New York, New YorkGennett
5607-A
Texas Moaner Blues
(Faye Barnes / Clarence Williams)
11-8-1924New York, New YorkGennett
8171-B

ArtistInstrument
Louis ArmstrongCornet
Lil Hardin-ArmstrongPiano
Buster BaileyClarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Sidney BechetClarinet
Buddy ChristianBanjo
Alberta Hunter
(under the name of Josephine Beatty)
Vocals
Charlie IrvisTrombone
Aaron ThompsonTrombone
Clarence ToddVocals

 

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